The fact that they would compare what they are doing to the Red Wedding is just mind-boggling to me.
I do think it’s what they are attempting to do. But they are not writing appropriately for their medium, not do they have that kind of source material to draw upon.
GoT is episodic television. You experience it in one hour chunks. Perhaps a few times if you really loved the episode. But it keeps progressing forward. WoW is a game where the players experience a small amount of story content over and over for months.
I loved the Red Wedding episode. I doubt I would have loved it if I was asked to watch it again and again for six months without any sense of story progression. I would have liked it even less if I was expected to be in the story as a member of one of those two factions. Imagine being asked to be a doomed Stark over and over again for six months. Or a despicable Frey. Yet that is, in essence, what Blizzard did to its players this expansion. Blizzard, you have stuck us in the middle of the Red Wedding episode for almost a year now!
Having feelings in response to art is a good thing. Having bad feelings is powerful. Having bad feelings that you are forced to dwell on over and over for months because thats the way this medium works…that’s not fun.
Blizzard seems to not understand the consequences of how this game is actually played and how that causes the storytelling to affect players profoundly differently than in a television show or a single player RPG.